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Donald Trump, forty seventh President of the United States. It is official. We hope you were listening to us live as we carried that swearing in and also the inaugural address. Buck and I are up here in Washington, d C and our iHeart Studios. We will be out tonight. Lives are excited, got their dresses ready for the inaugural ball scene should be an incredible celebration all over Washington, d C. Hundreds of thousands of Trump voters have traveled here to celebrate. Soon there will be a big rally inside of the Capital One Arena, and there are so many different things to get to. Major breaking new going to be happening a lot in the near future now that Trump is back in office. Let me hit you with several different things if you're just if you've been busy and you haven't been plugged in to know exactly what's been taking place today. Began this morning to find out that Joe Biden had pardoned doctor Fauci. The January sixth Committee, anyone involved in that investigation the Liz Cheney crew right before literally in the final moments, final minutes of his presidency, before Trump took office, Biden pardoned most of his family five brothers and sisters for potential crimes going all the way back, preempted pardons because they haven't been charged, preemptied pardons going all the way back to twenty fourteen. The Biden crime family was real, and all of you and us who've been talking about it for years. Biden further cemented that by pardoning Hunter and his five brothers and sisters preemptively again and they haven't been charged with any crime. Trump then delivered buck what I think was maybe the best speech of his political career, with just an incredible recitation of his plans and his belief in the future of America. And he has already begun to take action. He's going to be taking action more and more as more and more of these details come out. But for instance, he has already ended the CBP one app, which was allowing hundreds of thousands of people a year to claim asylum online and come into the country. Reports that he will end birthright citizenship. Men and women are the only two genders he's put an order in. He said that he's going to almost immediately allow service members ejected for not taking the COVID shot to come back with full back pay, and all of this moving in just an incredibly electric and rapid fashion, and Buck I kind of hinted at this a little bit before, but the final bit of this swearing in taking place for the first time since nineteen eighty five in the rotunda, was Carrie Underwood singing a cappella after the audio background of her supporting music was not allowed. It turned into an incredibly powerful, iconic moment of shared celebration of America. And to me, as I watched this, and as we have been here all weekend experiencing it, we have never seen sports, business and culture all aligne behind Donald Trump like we are seeing right now. Whether it is Carrie Underwood as I said, singing Snoop dogg rapping at trump inaugural balls, the number of sports figures, whether it was Connor McGregor, Logan and Jake Paul in the crowd there, and then Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk, all of these major business titans aligned and cheering on Trump, we are set. As Trump began his address by saying it buck for a new Golden age of America.
Well, you know, this is all part of I think the recognition that has occurred at a national recognition, maybe even a reckoning, that Trump is not some one off political fluke, that MAGA is not just some slogan that caught fire in some election cycle back in twenty sixteen, never to really reach its full potential and have its full day. This now shows that we are living in an era of a Trump movement, a Trump presidency, and an agenda that I think can be transformative. And I think the agenda going forward has been laid out in a way that it is both a cheat largely achievable, and also more than half the country I think really does want these things to happen and spoke very clearly in this last election something that I think is interesting, Clay, and this just struck me in our in our last commercial break, you know that Trump was impeached for talking about a Biden family corruption issue. And he was, I mean he was impeached, not only completely attacked and undermined by all of the Democrat media for this, the legacy corporate media for this, but he was impeached and threatened with removal, well, threatened with being banned from from office. Really, and now we have Joe Biden pardoning his family on the way out, which, as you just told me as well CNN is even saying, is a stain on his legacy. It is a remark couple turnabout in so many ways. Imagine if you could have said four years ago, when this argument was being made about or a little more than that, but about Trump and impeachment to the second impeachment, I'm sorry, the first impeachment. I was getting confused, the first impeachment of Donald Trump. Imagine if when you had said that, you'd say, well, you know Hunter Biden and Joe Biden's family, you know his brother and sisters. They're going to get pardons from Joe Biden for federal crimes not yet specified. You would have that would have been the argument ender for you. I mean, that would have been so clear. Well, then then there's obviously nothing that is untoward or unethical or illegal about President Trump bringing up federal crimes. There's no Oh, my daddy is important. My daddy's Joe Biden, So I get to commit crimes part of the Constitution or of any federal law. So I just think that so much has been brought full today and we've seen so much of the truth, and I just want everyone to really take it all in and remember and remember that you were on the right side of this, that you saw through the lies, that you knew that he wasn't a threat to democracy, that it wasn't an insurrection, that he's not a fascist, that actually the people who were saying that are the threat, or were the threat to all of those things, and to our institutions and to our sacred constitution, all of these things, that the country is healing, Clay, That's really what it feels like right now. There has been a restoration of sanity that has all come together on this day.
And I know that they are going to create opposition at some point in time. But as we talked about being in DC and seeing how frankly pathetic and moreause even the pro h testers look, it's like they've punched themselves out. You know how in a boxing match, sometimes you have two big heavyweights that are throwing a lot of punches in the first few rounds, and then they just start leaning on each other. Yeah, and there isn't that ability to throw a punch. I don't know that anybody in the Democrat Party right now has the ability to throw or land a punch on Trump. And I think that's one of the reasons why they're trying to act so quickly right now, is because they recognize the weakness of the opposition and they sort of want to flood the zone with activities that they know are very important, but that you can't do one at a time without creating an opportunity for your opponent to punch back. I think this is a sign of Trump's lessons that he's learned and the sophistication. And also and in Bolden, Trump came within a quarter inch of having his head blown off on live television. They tried to kill him again while he was golfing in mar A Lago. He said, I was saved by God to make America great again. I think maybe that Trump twenty twenty five feels a sense of destiny and purpose that even Trump twenty seventeen did not. And you talked about the character arc or the hero's journey that often we follow from a narrative perspective, It feels to me like Unlike in twenty seventeen, when Trump may well have felt and since intuitively the struggles of America, he didn't necessarily know how to address them. Now he's got a plan, he's got his cadre of advisors in place, his cabinet, he knows what to do and how to execute on a vision. And I think the next eighteen months, if he continues with this momentum, is going to be some of the most compelling leadership and advances in American history that we've ever seen based on the election of a president. That's how optimistic I am. In many of the people on the streets of Washington, d C. In their mind acaps, it's how they feel.
I believe we haven't even been able to get into yet. Just the fact that the economy. I think there's just an assumption that is baked in right now and has been in the market since Trump's win, that this economy is going to start roaring again, that wages are going to increase, that inflation is going to is going to be more in check than we've seen in four years, That productivity everything from small business startups to big mergers and acquisitions to you name it. The business of the American people is once again going to be business and not cronyism and overregulation and quasi socialism and all this other nonsense that you have to deal with Democrats. So I think we're we're heading into a time of tremendous economic growth and expansion in ways that the American people will feel. You know, one of the one of the big fails of the Biden presidency, and there are so many, but one of them was not only that the economy was far weaker than it would have been had Trump been president of the last four years, but also the clay They kept telling people, Oh, the economy is better than you think it is. And I don't think that's ever going to be a winning message. Yeah, I don't think telling people who see gas and grocery and rent prices skyrocket, who see super high mortgage rates for their homes, you know, who are seeing and feeling that economic pain, telling them, oh, be quiet, it's great, peasant. You know, now's not the time for your complaints. That's what Biden tried and failed to do, or you know, tried to convince people of. And I think that now you're going to see an economy that is up and flourishing and doing the things that we know are possible when the business of the American people can be business center.
Bill Haggerty's going to join us at bottom of the hour. I'm interested to hear from him. He was just a few steps away as this wearing in and as the Carrie Underwood song, and as Trump delivered his address. What the vibe was inside of that rotunda where only a few hundred people were allowed because they weren't doing it outside as they have in the past. We will break that down with him, Buck. I still think there's so many moving parts associated with the early actions of Trump and also the belated final actions of Joe Biden. I believe as we go to break here, can we play this audio clip. I wanted to make sure we hit it. This is CNN as Biden is flying away in the helicopter, basically acknowledging how disgraced he is given the pardons that he gave to his family. Again, CNN is saying this, listen.
It's just unseemly.
If you're going to do it, have the courage to do it in the light of day.
And explain it to the American people, it's a stain on his legacy to do it like this, when CNN is calling it the stain on Biden's legacy, that they're done with the defense.
This is why I keep saying there's no de facto leadership of the Democrat Party because they shoved aside and will no longer defend their formerly incumbent president and their former nominee Kamala Harris was a disaster for them, and they are I've never seen them scrambling like this. I've never seen so much Democrat and messaging impudence as I see right now. There's just they got nothing, and it's remarkable. Whether it's the sad protesters, you know, shaking their knees together out in the cold streets here, all the way up to primetime CNN and the front page of the New York Times, it all, Clay just looks weak and grasping.
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Tennessee Senator Bill Haggerty joins us. Now he was in the rotunda watching the speech, watching Carrie Underwood's amazing rendition of an a cappella song that soared throughout the entire rotunda, Senator, You've done a lot of interesting things, certainly in your life and in your career. But what was that experience like just a couple of hours ago in the Capitol, And what do you think the early days of the Trump administration are going to be?
Like I tell you, it's with with with marriage and fatherhood, getting to participate in something like that that's so transformational for our nation and so desperately needed right now. And you mentioned Carrie's voice, just spectacular and we all were there singing, you know, Democrat, Republican, you know, minister, politician, military man. Everybody was singing throughout the hall. It was just spectacular.
Senator, Senator, thank you so much for being with us. Buck, How do you rank in your mind the feeling of optimism and the sense of destiny that we have on this look, there have been other Republican administrations that have come in, and including Trump and Solf also there have been other exciting days, to be sure, and you know, the not too distant past. But how does this one rank and fit in among them? And what do you see as the most important steps that the president can take here in the opening days?
Buck? I think it's at the very top. And here's the reason. And in the first instance, they're just like this collective sigh of relief across the entire country that this four year experiment in Marxism is over. But beyond that, there's a sense of optimism too, because Donald Trump is bringing that. People know now that he's got the capability and the mandate to make our nation great again, as he likes to say, but to make certain that we're as exceptional as we possibly can be. This nation has so much potential, and he's going to help us realize that. He pointed to the fact that we've got the greatest oil and gas resources of any nation in the world, and we're going to use them. You know, He's going to take the actions necessary to boldly put us at the top of every metric. And I think America is going to feel great about that. It gets the backdrop buck of a population at seventy five percent of this nation said that we were on the wrong track before election day. And this is again back to the first point, a collective sigh of relief in a sunshine of optimism that I feel like just just unfolding right here in our nation's capital.
Are there, how optimistic. Are you, Senator, about the fifty three Senate majority that you helped to make a reality that is going to be ready to support Trump. How quickly do you think the bills start getting passed? How quickly should he be expected to sign them? For people out there listening right now that say, okay, let's take a breath. We're excited. We're celebrating the absence the basically the ending of the Biden regime, the return of Trump. What should happen first in your mind? And what should people expect the Senate to be doing well?
The most important thing is getting the team around the president that he needs to execute on his plans. And this afternoon, I'm going to meet I'm going to send it Foreign Relations Committee. We're going to vote Senator Marco Rubio out of our committee to be our next secretary of State. The Democrats will have their chance. Let's see if they will because if they cooperate with us, we can confirm Marco Rubio tonight to be our next secretary of State, said only John Ratcliffe. He's a nominee to be CIA director. We desperately need to have these national security positions in place. I'd like to see John come out of committee tonight. I'd like to see my Democrat colleagues cooperate with us. Certainly we need seven more. We only got fifty three, and that requires, you know it, It'll require them to agree to change the procedures, to accelerate the procedures to get these people out. When the ultimate vote takes place, we'll get it, because you only need fifty plus one to make that work. But to compress the time and accelerate these nominations, which is what I hope we do tonight and send a message to the rest of the world that we're serious about our national security. The first chance happens tonight, Let's see what the Democrats do. Then. I think what you're going to see is just a rapid progression of lear nominees, particularly when you think about Pete Hext for DOOD. You think it out Cash to Tell and Pambondi in the top law enforcement positions at the FBI and the dj We're going to be moving a pace to get President Trump's team around him as quickly as possible. And I hope that the Democrats got the message on election Day in November the fifth that American needs to see a change, and we need to give President trumpet team he needs to make it happen. Back to legislation, tonight, we're going to be voting on the Lake and Riley Act, and I hope that President Trump will be in a position to assign that as his very first first piece of legislation. What that will do is it will make certain that people that enter our country illegally and commit a crime will be detained by ice, picked up and deported. They won't be allowed to go out and commit more crimes the way that the occurred under the Biden administration. That's exactly how Lake and Riley was killed. A criminal that invated our country, commits crimes in another state, moved down to Georgia and does it again, a heinous murder. He should have never been on the streets. And this will stop. Just that, I'm expecting to see rapid pace with legislation ready for the President's signature, you know, as early as tomorrow.
Senator Haggerty, you know, the last time Trump took office, I remember I was in New York City and there were already these kind of ferocious, I would argue, somewhat deranged anti Trump marches going on in the streets, and there was the hashtag resistance and this feeling that there was unity among Democrats that they would do everything and cross really ethical boundaries and legal boundaries as well in order to stop this president. This time around, it feels much more like the Democrats are. It's desolate out there in protests land. It's pretty quiet in the Democrat media, you know, platforms and from some of their bigger shows, and the front pages of their newspapers just don't seem to have the gusto for the fight anymore. Do you feel like the opposition is particularly dejected and what are your expectations for how that plays out.
It's totally different. Back during the twenty sixteen race, I was one of President Trump's finance chairman. The day after the election, I moved into Trump Tower for the transition effort. There, they had barricades all around the tower. People were shouting at us, spitting at us. It was just unbelievable, chanting not my president, not my president. And they had organized protests. We thought they were paid because they all got together at the same time every day and the camera showed up and they knew exactly what they're doing. But that went on for weeks, and I certainly don't feel about it all to day because I think the Democrats, even surprise surprise, can do math. And the math is this, President Trump won in a landslide. President Trump took the majority of though he took the top of the vote here in America, Democrats came up way short. If you just look at the poland seventy five percent of Americans feel like or felt like America was on the wrong track, and I don't see how they could pop will be the five the numbers. America isn't with them. The media, I think has changed as well, great allies of the Democrat Party and the mainstream media, but I think everybody on that side has got to take a very hard look at the fact that the Americans have made their sentiment known. Trump won every battleground state in America. That is a mandate, and I think their retates can the entirety of their party's platform and the fact that this four year experiment in socialism has not worked.
We're talking to Senator Bill Haggerty, who is excited to be enacting President Trump's agenda. Do you feel comfortable based on what you see, Senator that all of the cabinet nominees that require Senate approval look good to get approved. Where do you see that battleground. I know you mentioned that they may try to obstruct and make it take longer, But by and large, do you think the votes are there for Trump's people to all get confirmed.
I really do feel that way right now. I don't see anything on the horizon today that makes me think that these people will not get confirmed. The question is whether procedurally the Democrats will throw every road bock in place if they can. As I mentioned earlier, we've got to have their cooperation to accelerate the timelines to get people voted. Otherwise the Senate is sort of a slow process, and they may decide to use procedural means to make us run the timeline out on every single procedural step when there's another way. There's another way to get this done much faster, and as soon as these people have gotten through the Committee of Jurisdiction, they should be ready for a vote. Again. I'm optimistic, a little bit guarded, but I'm optimistic that tonight we'll have a first test to this. I'm optimistic that Marco Rubio again I'm certain he's going to clear the Senate for Relations committee that I sit on to be our next sextair state. And I'm hopeful that all of our Democrat colleagues will say, look, this is something that needs to get done for our nation security. We're not going to slow it down, going to move them out tonight.
Saying for John Radcliffe, CIA, what do you think about Biden pardning five brothers and sisters. We already know that he's pardoned his son Hunter, as well as the decision to part in Fauci, a lot of the individuals involved in the January sixth committee. What does it do to Biden, Biden's legacy, what does it do to any Democrat argument for respective.
Rule of law? Well, I think it's just a complete mockery of the rule of law and Joe Biden. If you look at the press release that they put out, Biden says he's doing this to protect these people, his family members, people like Fauci. The j six Committee against quote unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions. That's about as rich as it can get coming from Joe Biden, because he's the one that used an unjust justified, politically motivated prosecution to go after his number one political opponent America saw this. The hypocrisy is just unbelievable. I'm certain that the mainstream media will not call him out for this hypocrisy, but I'm telling you and all of our listeners right now, this is a mockery of justice. And the Democrats have no had to nowhere to hang your hat anymore when it comes to talking about democracy and justice in this country.
Senator Haggerty, we think there are great things ahead. We know you're going to be a big part of it. We appreciate you making the time for us today and looking forward to speaking with you. With Donald Trump as president, it's going to be exciting.
Play, but great to be with you. Thanks so much.
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It's now transitioning, I think for the crowds gathered and everything to just celebration mode. It feels quite a bit like our team collectively has won the Super Bowl or the Stanley Cup, or you know, pick your trophy, pick your sports moment, and everyone's in a great mood and it's going to be a phenomenal night out there on the town.
It should be, and we expect that the next several days, you're going to want to make sure that you're listening because I think the rapidity with which the Trump team is going to move to put their plans in place is going to mean that any moment on the show, we're going to have something that probably you're going to agree with.
You know, the trund is being done or already made. In their way through security at the White House, I saw now they're taking their offices, taking their positions, and moving like they have urgency, which is exactly what we want to see.
And you may need to have some urgency in your life. I bet tomorrow morning we're gonna need some Crocket coffee. We haven't mentioned it all during the day, but maybe maybe you're gonna have a little bit too much to drink to celebrate tonight. Maybe you have had a fun weekend of activities. I know that I'm gonna be loading up because you got a super early morning till he's definitely gonna be drinking.
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Sports business, culture all aligning. It seems like a silly thing. But YMCA showing up and singing Ymca for the village people singing ymca, Uh, it really does, I think, indicate that the opposition is basically vanished and that we are headed for what I hope is a new golden age.
It's going to be absolutely fantastic. And I got to tell you, you know, Clay, we had to be We had to keep the faith we had. And I say we, I mean you me. We started this together, this show together, and the sacred trust of this audience placed in us during the Biden administration. Okay, we all had to just, you know, just dig deep and bear it and deal with it and the whole thing. It is really exciting to be sitting here and looking forward to doing years more of this show in a Trump era where we get to have our team on offense in all the best ways. We've really had to play defense up until certainly this election cycle where Trump was able to make the case right.
It has been.
Trying to bring the truth to people, trying to slow down the destructive Democrat machine. Well, now the cavalry has come over the hill and the good guys have won the day. And there's, like I said, a sense of urgency from the Trump team, and I think from all of these folks, all of these individuals who have a tremendous it's a tremendous honor, it is also a tremendous obligation. It is something that they have to see through here. The American people are counting on.
Them, no doubt, and I am excited. This is the very first time we've had an opportunity to do a show without having to worry about Joe Biden being in office. And I know Rush would be excited. I know he would be ecstatic.
He's looking at down smiling on today's festivities, no question about.
It, for sure.
And we are certainly glad to be able to, Man, are we glad to be able to start to stack some wins. We'll be hanging out with you. We're going to go check out the scene around the inaugural balls tonight and we hope that you guys have a great time. Probably see some of you all over DC and we'll be back right back with you.
And if you see someone take the stage by the way, with a turtleneck and a flute, and it looks like clay. It might just be clay. I'm putting that out there.
May have to bump Carrie Underwood off the stage and break out my mad skills on the flute. By the way, no telling what AI is going to do with a lot of the celebrations and the new Trump error, So just keep your head on a swivel. You've got no idea what's real, what's fake.
And remember, if you see Lauren Sanchez, keep your eyes, keep the eyes high.